The
#1 bestselling author reflects on the filming of
five of his most popular short stories, each
tale included in this collection. Those movies
are The Shawshank Redemption, 1408, Children of
the Corn, The Mangler, and Hearts in Atlantis.
Includes an introduction, his brief personal
commentary, and behind-the-scenes insights by
Stephen.
Under the Dome
The Dead Zone - The Complete Third Season
now on DVD
On
an entirely normal, beautiful fall day, a small
town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off
from the rest of the world by an invisible force
field. Planes crash into it and rain down
flaming wreckage. A gardener’s hand is severed
as the dome descends. Cars explode on impact.
Families are separated and panic mounts. No one
can fathom what the barrier is, where it came
from, and when—or if—it will go away. Now a few
intrepid citizens, led by an Iraq vet turned
short-order cook, face down a ruthless
politician dead set on seizing the reins of
power under the dome. But their main adversary
is the dome itself. Because time isn’t just
running short. It’s running out.
Johnny
Smith has been leading an idyllic small-town life. Employed
as a science teacher, Johnny takes great pleasure in showing
his young students the wonders of the natural world. He is
also newly-engaged to a loving fiancée named Sarah, a fellow
teacher he's known since childhood, and is a good son to his
widowed mother, who lives nearby. Johnny's life is nearly
perfect - until the day his life is interrupted by a
near-fatal car crash that leaves him in a deep coma. Six
years later, Johnny finally regains consciousness and
discovers that life as he once knew it has completely
changed. His mother has passed away, and Sarah has gone on
to marry someone else - and now has a son...
Duma Key
Riding the Bullet now on
DVD
The
#1 bestselling author reflects on the filming of
five of his most popular short stories, each
tale included in this collection. Those movies
are The Shawshank Redemption, 1408, Children of
the Corn, The Mangler, and Hearts in Atlantis.
Includes an introduction, his brief personal
commentary, and behind-the-scenes insights by
Stephen.
A
vintage Stephen King concept unfolds in Riding the Bullet: a
college kid, circa 1970, must hitchhike a very long (and
very dark) hundred miles to visit his hospitalized mother.
The ghosts waiting for him along the way are either real or
of his own mind (which seems to be a dark place itself). As
a King short story, this might have been a usefully
frightening premise, but it's almost entirely literary; on
screen, it boils down to a guy walking down a road at night.
Jonathan Jackson is suitably tortured in the lead role (or
roles--he frequently appears double on screen, arguing with
himself), but the movie is stolen by David Arquette, rocking
it up as a '50s greaser who died in a car crash years
earlier.
Who is Stephen King?
Who is Richard Bachman?
Stephen Edwin King was
born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the younger of
two sons. Apart from being raised without a
father from the age of three, Stephen
experienced a normal childhood. He enjoyed
playing for his high school football team and
was an enthusiastic member of a small rock band.
After graduating high school in 1966, King
attended the University of Maine, where he
studied English. While in college, Stephen wrote
a weekly column for the school newspaper and
served as a member of the student senate. He
supported the anti-war movement on campus,
reasoning that the Vietnam War was
unconstitutional. After earning his B.S. in
English in 1970, King was drafted by the U.S.
military, but excused for having flat feet and
poor vision.More...
Here is the official Biography of
Richard Bachman:
Born in
New York, Richard Bachman’s early years are somewhat of a
mystery.
As a young man, Bachman served a four-year stint in the
Coast Guard, which he then followed with ten years in the
merchant marine.More..
Stephen Edwin King was
born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the younger of
two sons. Apart from being raised without a
father from the age of three, Stephen
experienced a normal childhood. He enjoyed
playing for his high school football team and
was an enthusiastic member of a small rock band.
